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Insiang is the put-upon daughter of the slums who endures abuse from everyone in her orbit: her insensitive boyfriend; her harpy mother; and her mother’s sleazy younger lover. But after she’s raped by him, Insiang’s timidity hardens into a steely resolve to get even, and exact vicious revenge.
May 30, 2017 · Abandoned by Insiang’s father, working her fingers to the bone each day, Tonya doesn’t particularly want Insiang to enjoy life any more than she has been able to. Meanwhile, the alpha male in the community, Dado, played by Ruel Vernal, whom we met when he was an anonymous worker in the slaughterhouse, has become Tonya’s lover and has moved into the home she and Isiang share.
Sep 6, 2021 · The film revolves around the story of Insiang (Hilda Koronel), an impoverished laundrywoman living in the slums of Tondo with her cruel mother, Tonya (Mona Lisa), her aunt, and extended family. Dado (Ruel Vernal), a butcher and thug who is also Tonya’s lover, moves in with them the day after Tonya evicts her sister-in-law and family from ...
Oct 27, 2015 · Insiang (1976) Directed by Lino Brocka October 28-November 3 at MoMA Lino Brocka filmed from the vantage points of oppressed people. The Filipino director made three great melodramas about them in quick succession in the mid-1970s, beginning with Weighed But Found Wanting (1974), a record of a kinship between three lonesome figures on the outskirts...
Oct 22, 2015 · The young woman loves an ineffectual man named Bebot and spurns the advances of her mother’s live-in lover, Dado, a gigolo and petty bandit who is the neighborhood bully. Smarting from Insiang ...
Insiang leads a quiet life dominated by household duties, but after she is raped by her mother’s lover and abandoned by the young man who claims to care for her, she exacts vicious revenge. A savage commentary on the degradations of urban poverty, especially for women, INSIANG was the first Philippine film ever to play at Cannes.
May 26, 2016 · Un portrait de femme bouleversant par le prodige du cinéma philippin !Au cinéma le 22 juin.http://www.carlottavod.com/insiang
